.TH "MAKESELF" "1" "2.4.5"
.SH "NAME"
makeself \- An utility to generate self-extractable archives.
.SH "SYNTAX"
.B makeself [\fIoptions\fP] archive_dir file_name label
.B [\fIstartup_script\fP] [\fIargs\fP]
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
This program is a free (GPL) utility designed to create self-extractable
archives from a directory.
.SH "OPTIONS"
The following options are supported.
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.B -v, --version
Prints out the makeself version number and exits.
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.B -h, --help
Print out help information.
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.B --tar-quietly
Suppress verbose output from the tar command
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.B --quiet
Do not print any messages other than errors
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.B --gzip
Compress using gzip (default if detected).
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.B --bzip2
Compress using bzip2.
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.B --pbzip2
Compress using pbzip2.
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.B --xz
Compress using xz.
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.B --lzo
Compress using lzop.
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.B --lz4
Compress using lz4.
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.B --compress
Compress using the UNIX 'compress' command.
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.B --nocomp
Do not compress the data.
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.B --complevel lvl
Specify the compression level for gzip,bzip2,pbzui2,xz,lzo or lz4
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.B --notemp
The archive will create archive_dir in the current directory and
uncompress in ./archive_dir.
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.B --copy
Upon extraction, the archive will first copy itself to a temporary directory.
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.B --append
Append more files to an existing makeself archive. The label and startup scripts will then be ignored.
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.B --current
Files will be extracted to the current directory. Both --current and --target dir imply --notemp.
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.B --target dir
Extract directly to a target directory. Directory path can be either absolute or relative.
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.B --header file
Specify location of the header script.
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.B --cleanup file
Specify a cleanup script that executes on interrupt and when finished successfully.
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.B --follow
Follow the symlinks in the archive.
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.B --noprogress
Do not show the progress during the decompression.
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.B --nox11
Disable automatic spawn of an xterm if running in X11.
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.B --nowait
Do not wait for user input after executing embedded program from an xterm.
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.B --nomd5
Do not create a MD5 checksum for the archive.
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.B --nocrc
Do not create a CRC32 checksum for the archive.
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.B --lsm file
LSM file describing the package.
.B --packaging-date date
Use provided string as the packaging date instead of the current date.
.SH "EXAMPLES"
Here is an example, assuming the user has a package image stored in a /home/joe/mysoft,
and he wants to generate a self-extracting package named mysoft.sh, which will launch
the "setup" script initially stored in /home/joe/mysoft:
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makeself.sh /home/joe/mysoft mysoft.sh "Joe's Nice Software Package" ./setup
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Here is also how I created the makeself.run archive which contains the Makeself distribution:
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makeself.sh --notemp makeself makeself.run "Makeself by Stephane Peter" echo "Makeself has extracted itself"
.SH "AUTHORS"
Makeself has been written by Stéphane Peter <megastep@megastep.org>.
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This man page was originally written by Bartosz Fenski <fenio@o2.pl> for the
Debian GNU/Linux distribution (but it may be used by others).
